Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The bright Ascension Cathedral is one of Almaty’s landmark buildings - getty I was standing outside the grand Stalin-era Science ...

On the facade of an apartment block in Tajikistan's capital Dushanbe, a giant mosaic depicting cosmonauts and engineers celebrates the scientific triumphs of the Soviet Union. Like so many other ...

In the late 1970s, Central Asia could seem to some like just another stagnating Soviet backwater. News of the day praised economic achievements that weren't real — just as local communist leaders ...